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by tim333 6mo ago
Also, I'm not sure but if a road that normally has several cars a minute goes to zero cars in five minutes say, it's likely it's blocked.
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by tim333 6mo ago
Alcohol is quite different to cigarettes. It's fun and part of the culture - most people drink and the country is full of pubs and restaurants serving it. You couldn't ban it without most of the country, including me, objecting. C
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by tim333 6mo ago
And they've only recently cranked things up, seeming having given up on Trump who wanted restraint there.
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by tim333 6mo ago
Russia has nukes and there seems to be some game going on.
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by tim333 6mo ago
I basically agree and think it's a great shame that the US didn't say don't invade Ukraine or we'll have the USAF bomb the invading troops. Russia couldn't reasonably use nukes just because they were being stopped i
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by tim333 6mo ago
Putin seems to fairly consistently do what is best for Putin. Using nukes would probably have him rapidly end up like Khamenei senior.
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by tim333 6mo ago
Different situation. The Americans were killing Vietnamese in Vietnam. There was a near unlimited number of those, including innocent ones.. The Ukrainians are killing Russian soldiers in Ukraine. There's a limited number and if they d
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by tim333 6mo ago
I was thinking that. For most of the last sixty years Russia / the USSR was the peer adversary usually mentioned for NATO to fight. I think they look weaker than they are because Ukraine has actually been pretty competent in the fight.
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by tim333 6mo ago
Yeah like the famous French Coup. You never hear a Ukrainian say our country had a coup. It's a Russian propaganda lie so they can feel better about murdering their peaceful democratic neighbours to try to steal their stuff.
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by tim333 6mo ago
True. Still needs a judge to sign off, which I kind of doubt will happen.
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by tim333 6mo ago
Yeah, I think superhuman intelligence will be more Sheldon off Big Bang Theory than God. I've only ever heard the building God thing from AI skeptics. They must have an impoverished vision of God if they see that as a gadget that score
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by tim333 6mo ago
His basic idea that he calls a Pascal's Wager seems quite sensible, which I take as: -Get away from the "enshitternet of defective, spying, controlling American tech exports" and move to open source ("international digit
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by tim333 6mo ago
I read the article that he links to and he's thinking of John Deere tractors that were stolen by the Russians from a dealer in Ukraine and got bricked remotely as a result. It showed the tech exists to do such things.
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by tim333 6mo ago
A lot of the problem is with the investment bubble aspect of AI rather than the tech itself. If people who wanted to use AI had to pay appropriate server costs the demand would be about ten times less and GPU, RAM and SSD prices no much cha
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by tim333 6mo ago
It's quite impressive how badly we've done in cutting fossil fuel use in that. Gas+Oil+Coal has gone up 71% since the first IPCC report in 1990 to the amount for 2024.
856.
by tim333 6mo ago
In the "unpaid cost of climate change and air pollution as a result of burning fossil fuels" etc. sense, not in a cash given to fossil fuel folk sense.
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by tim333 6mo ago
You can debate if the 'Revolution of Dignity' was a good thing or not, but some other country impeaching their leader for human rights violations and holding new elections is a poor reason to invade it. Obviously Putin thought Yan
858.
by tim333 6mo ago
Re the repairs, I can get the battery swapped on the 13 mini for £49 which isn't that bad. (iSmash, not Apple).
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by tim333 6mo ago
I was wondering about that. I lost my iPhone 13 mini the other day, did the find my phone beep thing and got a distant beep from my washing machine which was on wash cycle. Surprisingly the phone was fine and works fine after a brief rinse
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by tim333 6mo ago
There was a thing from Patrick Collison recently >by far the most useful preventative medical advice that I've ever received has come from unleashing coding agents on my genome, having them investigate my specific mutations, and hav
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by tim333 6mo ago
Yanukovych was removed by >Parliament votes 328-0 to impeach Yanukovych on Feb. 22; sets May 25 for new election funny sort of coup.
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by tim333 6mo ago
The Donbass thing was down to a lot of false flag stuff from Russia who'd been plotting to take back Ukraine for ages. A lot done by Grikin who fully admitted it https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2014/11/21/
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by tim333 6mo ago
I found the top comment on this Reddit thing interesting https://www.reddit.com/r/Objectivism/comments/119vzrk/why_is...
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by tim333 6mo ago
He doesn't really give the reason why "markets have barely flinched". The prevailing narrative is you may as well ignore valuations and put your money in an index fund because they've always done well. Hence the lack of
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by tim333 6mo ago
Maybe they could elect someone normal next time around?
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by tim333 6mo ago
The killing the neighbours thing seems a bit more prevalent there than other developed countries.
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by tim333 6mo ago
Which I guess makes their criticism more notable: >In the United States, an escalation in both legislative dysfunction and executive dominance, growing pressure on people’s ability to engage in free expression, and the new administration
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by tim333 6mo ago
Cool. I think they had to delete all the sequencing data from the Wuhan Institute of Virology so stuff in the air wouldn't show up.
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by tim333 6mo ago
I guess my first car's four speed box was a bit like a FP2 float. Lever forward/back, right/left -> 3.65, 2.15, 1.42, 1.00 ratios.
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by tim333 6mo ago
I think the >Donald Trump is suing his own IRS to try to steal $10 BILLION taxpayer dollars... make this theft ILLEGAL thing has a point.

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